The Lions' Pride

Reading your post and reading the article paint the interview in two different ways. It's funny how someone can hand select quotes to tell the story they want it. The guy who wrote the artie makes it sound like Emmert is goin to drop the hammer on penn state.

I read the article and then watched the video clip and also came away with two different impressions.

Emmert came off as someone that knows the NCAA painted itself into a corner with the November letter and is now looking for an out. That out is either conceding that no NCAA rules were violated and that this is a criminal and civil justice matter, or making an NCAA violation whole cloth. Neither puts the NCAA in a good spot.

His comment about discussions with PSU suggests that the NCAA is desperately trying to negotiate an agreed upon response with PSU to side step the above issues.

Legally I am confident the NCAA cant do anything but that doesn't mean they won't. What I worry about is Penn State not fighting the sanctions in court. They could definitely win in court but I am afraid they wouldn't fight any potential sanctions because it would make them look bad as if football is more important, what about the victims, yada yada yada.

Side note: LOIC is clearly a matter of compliance. NCAA experts have already gave numerous statements saying if the NCAA were to find Penn State showed LOIC, they would have to show they had LOIC with athletic COMPLIANCE. Not LOIC with a pedophile.

We shall see but until the NCAA launches an official investigation I am not worrying.

bonovoxpsu: Ha I got all three . So hypothetically if they give Penn State the death penalty, even if their own rule book prohibits it. There is nothing Penn State could do? They can't fight the NCAA in court?